Let's rewind and revisit the best of Solstice FWD 2016. Leaders in digital, IT, and product gathered together for Solstice's second annual innovation summit on September 15th to explore "What's next?" for the future of digital customer experience. Take a look back at the talks, discover the technologies, and feel the energy that went on throughout the day.

Next generation themes

The Future of Digital Customer Experience

Connected Experiences and IoT

Conversational UX and AI

AR, VR, and Robotics

Disrupt Yourself

Solstice Labs Experiences

At this year's event, our design-gineers built and demonstrated the newest interactive experiences coming out of Solstice Labs. Using augmented reality, IoT, sensors, and robotics, explore how we see the future of emerging technology.

As Solstice's artificial intelligence platform, Siena brought Solstice FWD to life. Attendees interacted with Siena through the ‘Solstice Siena’ chatbot built in Facebook messenger, the Siena robots roaming the Innovation Hall, and via kiosks and displays. Through facial recognition and location data emitted from beacon-equipped conference badges, Siena was able to intelligently spot and engage in 1-1 conversations with attendees.

We spend most of our time in buildings, but rarely give a thought to the space around us. That’s why we developed The Pulse, a real-time sensor-driven data fabric that can track multiple environmental variables across any space. Built end-to-end on top of Amazon Web Services IoT stack, The Pulse can be modified to track any measurable environmental parameter, including heat, motion and sound.

While ping pong has recently made its way into office spaces across the globe, the game itself hasn't changed much since its inception. Built on the AWS IoT Platform, we set out to enhance a game that has been around for hundreds of years. Ping Pong+ combines voice, sound, digital displays, real-time motion tracking and IoT devices to completely reimagine what it feels like to play ping pong.

Augmented reality is making it possible to merge virtual objects into the physical worlds around us. To explore the possibilities, we built rockstAR, an interactive AR experience. By coupling the power of Microsoft’s HoloLens, Philips Hue Lightbulbs, and a series of stage technologies, we're giving users the ability to customize a live rockband experience.

Solstice FWD 2016 Speakers

We pulled thought leaders across the enterprise, startup and analyst communities to share their perspectives on the future of digital customer experience.